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Breaking with the Past

Author : Hans Van de Ven
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231137389
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Breaking with the Past written by Hans Van de Ven and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1854 to 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue available to China’s central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China’s harbors and surveyed the Chinese coast. It oversaw a college training Chinese diplomats; translated legal, philosophical, economic, and scientific documents; organized contributions to international exhibitions; and pioneered China’s modern postal system. After the 1911 Revolution, the agency began managing China’s international loans and domestic bond issues, and in the 1930s, it created a coast guard to combat smuggling. The Customs Service was central to China’s post-Taiping entrance into the world of modern nation-states and twentieth-century trade and finance, and this is the first comprehensive history of the Customs Service’s activities and truly cosmopolitan nature. At times, the Service kept China together when little else did.

Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China

Author : Donna Brunero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113434094X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China written by Donna Brunero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, focussing especially on its later years and in particular on the experiences of the foreign administration.

Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China

Author : Chihyun Chang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135122334
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China written by Chihyun Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, which was led by British staff, is often seen as one of the key agents of Western imperialism in China, the customs revenue being one of the major sources of Chinese government income but a source much of which was pledged to Western banks as the collateral for, and interests payments on, massive loans. This book, however, based on extensive original research, considers the lower level staff of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and shows how the Chinese government, struggling to master Western expertise in many areas, pursued a deliberate policy of encouraging lower level staff to learn from their Western superiors with a view to eventually supplanting them, a policy which was successfully carried out. The book thereby demonstrates that Chinese engagement with Western imperialists was in fact an essential part of Chinese national state-building, and that what looked like a key branch of Chinese government delegated to foreigners was in fact very much under Chinese government control.

An Irishman in China

Author : Zhao Changtian
Publisher : Shanghai Press
ISBN 13 : 9781602202382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book An Irishman in China written by Zhao Changtian and published by Shanghai Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a long journey—in more ways than mere geography—from a childhood in Northern Ireland to becoming the most influential foreigner in 19th-century China. This historical novel follows the life of Robert Hart, whose career in China spanned more than half a century during the turbulent last decades of the Qing dynasty. As the Qing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service, Hart was involved in many major events of late Imperial China. While negotiating his way through civil dissent and foreign conflicts, he played an instrumental role in the country's modernization. A rare foreigner who learned the language and developed a deep interest in and sensitivity to the culture, Hart had a passion for his adopted country but continually struggled in his dual role as British subject and employee of the Chinese government. Hart's personal life was not without its own challenges as he grappled with his relationship with his Chinese lover and the children he had with her, as well as his British wife and their family together. Long periods of conflict, loneliness and doubt lurked behind the professional triumphs for which he became world-renowned. Based on exhaustive historical research, the story is enlivened by dialogue and plot elements suggested by the author's deep knowledge of Hart and the country and times in which he lived. The reader will be rewarded with insight into this pivotal period in Chinese history through the lens of the life of one fascinating individual.

Imperial Maritime Customs

Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Maritime Customs written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

H. B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China

Author : John King Fairbank
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813171043
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book H. B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China written by John King Fairbank and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (1910-18). At the time of his death, Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world, and his works played a profound role in shaping the contours of Western scholarship on China. Begun as a labor of love by his protégé, John King Fairbank, this lively biography based primarily on Morse's vast collection of personal papers sheds light on many crucial events in modern Chinese history, as well as on the multifaceted Western role in late imperial China, and provides new insights into the beginnings of modern China studies in this country. Half-finished when Fairbank died, the project was completed by his colleagues, Martha Henderson Coolidge and Richard J. Smith.

The I. G. in Peking

Author : Robert Hart
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The I. G. in Peking written by Robert Hart and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hart's forty-five-year administration of China's customs service was a unique achievement. In these letters Hart speaks to us directly from a time long past in China, but a time that may seem only yesterday to a Western reader. The result is a primary source for the history of modern China and the era of foreign privilege there. Bearing sole responsibility for the Chinese Maritime Customs as its Inspector General, Hart built up an international staff of thousands, facilitated foreign trade, gave the late-Ch'ing court its principal new revenues, and fostered China's modernity in administration, schools, naval development, postal service, and many other lines. Behind the scenes Hart was also a diplomat who settled the Sino-French war, changed Macao's status, got boundaries delimited with Burma and India, and mitigated the disasters of imperialism. His career at Peking, coinciding with that of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, represented the constructive side of the unequal treaty system and Victorian Britain's informal empire in East Asia. The publication of the great I. G.'s weekly or fortnightly letters to his confidant and London commissioner, James Duncan Campbell, gives us an intimate, inside view of Hart's problems and methods. He appraises his employers in China's foreign office, the Tsungli Yamen, and comments pithily on the complex flow of events and personalities. He quotes the Confucian Classic but, even more, the Latin poets. His personal life is revealed--standing long hours at his writing desk, finding solace in the violin, keeping his own counsel, constantly isolated by his responsibilities. Having no confidant in Peking, he explains himself to his loyal agent in London. The Hart-Campbell letters, after five years' editing and annotation and with an informed introduction by Hart's final successor as foreign I. G., L. K. Little, thus take their place as one of the great historical treasures that bring a vanished era back to life.

The Custom Of The Sea

Author : Neil Hanson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446421961
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Custom Of The Sea written by Neil Hanson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 5 July 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton bound for Sydney. Halfway through their projected one hundred and twenty day voyage, Captain Tom Dudley and his crew of three men were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of Africa. After four days of battling towering waves and hurricane gales, their yacht was finally crushed by a ferocious forty foot wave. The survivors were cast adrift a thousand miles from the nearest landfall in an open thirteen foot dinghy without provisions, water or shelter from the scorching sun. When, after twenty four days, they were finally rescued by a passing yacht, the Moctezuma, only three men were left and they were in an appalling condition. The ordeal that they endured and the trial which followed their eventual return to England held the whole nation - from the lowliest ship's deckhand to Queen Victoria herself - spellbound during the following winter. This is the true story of the voyage and the subsequent court case which outlawed for ever a practice followed since men first put to the ocean in boats: the custom of the sea.

Official Catalogue

Author : United States Centennial Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Catalogue written by United States Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blue Frontier

Author : Ronald C. Po
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424619
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Frontier written by Ronald C. Po and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.

China. Imperial Maritime Customs. II. Special Series No. 4. Opium

Author : Inspector General of Customs
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385458390
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book China. Imperial Maritime Customs. II. Special Series No. 4. Opium written by Inspector General of Customs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pleasure Boats

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pleasure Boats written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Chinese Maritime Customs

Author : B. Foster Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Maritime Customs written by B. Foster Hall and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Entering China's Service

Author : Katherine F. Bruner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684172624
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Entering China's Service written by Katherine F. Bruner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hart was one of those empire builders of the Victorian age who had a long and nearly uninterrupted experience in China, from 1854, when as a young Irishman from Belfast he landed in Ningpo, until 1908, when as a man in his seventies he finally retired to England. His years as the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service have been copiously recorded in letters to his London agent, beginning in 1868, published as a 2-volume collection, The IG. in Peking (Harvard, Belknap Press, 1975). In 1970, a second lode of Hart materials came to light, the 77 volumes of his journals, begun on the day of his arrival in China in 1854 and ending at his departure in 1908, with two short but significant gaps in the first decade where he himself destroyed entries of too personal a nature. Entering China's Service presents a complete and annotated transcript of the surviving journals through 1863, alternating with chapters devoted to Hart's North Ireland background, the China he encountered, the Ch'ing officials who trusted him, and the unfolding of his career. His reactions to the Chinese as well as to his fellow Westerners cast an invaluable light on nineteenth-century China.

Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yearbook of Immigration Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pamphlet

Author : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of International Law
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pamphlet written by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of International Law and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voyages, Migration, and the Maritime World

Author : Clara Ho
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110587688
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Voyages, Migration, and the Maritime World written by Clara Ho and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a multi-author volume resulted from an international conference focusing on topics related to our understanding of the role of China in the global history. Apart from introductory chapters exploring methodological issues and providing big pictures of framing China in the world in particular time zones, this volume also covers rich discussions on the following themes from the ancient period to the twentieth century: organized water transport, cultural interactions, navigators, port cities, smuggling activities, customs service, foreign relations, migration, and diasporas. Written by scholars of different generations who are based in diverse regions including Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK and the US, the chapters in this volume either address old questions from new perspectives, or table new topics that were largely ignored in previous scholarship. Some go further to brainstorm possible research directions in the future. This thought-provoking volume will be beneficial to readers who are interested in rethinking China's position in the global historical stage against the backdrop of Post-Orientalism.